BenQ XL2730Z Freesync Owners Thread

Panos said:
Agreeing with Ocus above. (I have a 295X2 also).

I have the monitor 2 months now, and is superb.
Cannot stress it enough how great the monitor is.
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I also have the 295x2, what exactly do you guys mean you can't play with it enabled? Like you actually have to go disable it to be able to play? Does it not just auto disable when it isn't compatible with something? I've just left it on always.
 
Dreldan said:
I also have the 295x2, what exactly do you guys mean you can't play with it enabled? Like you actually have to go disable it to be able to play? Does it not just auto disable when it isn't compatible with something? I've just left it on always.
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I do not understand what you mean by saying "what exactly do you guys mean you can't play with it enabled? "

If you mean crossfire, on game that do not support Crossfire or is patchy (TESO), yes I disable it, so I can get Freesync working. (I disable Crossfire with custom profile in CCC).
And these are the games that usually I play most, like World of Tanks, World of Warships, Armored Warfare, Elder Scrolls Online, Eve Online, Cities Skylines.

Especially WoT, AW and TESO where even a single 290X 1100/1625 struggles, freesync is the great saviour.


Games like Crysis 3, Far Cry etc where the 295X2 works properly, I can live without Freesync until AMD sort the driver outs.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
Excluding firmware problems, are people generally happy with this monitor? It seems to get good reviews. The £500 ASUS Freesync IPS monitor is competing at a similar price point, but has a couple of flaws that have put me off. Is the BenQ a good example of a fast gaming TN screen with decent colours for its class?

I realise there are reviews out there, but sometimes it's nice to hear it from the horse's mouth :)
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I have had it since Wednesday!
Up untill now, i like it. i have to play 1080p maxed out with freesync in BF4, and that's so smooth it feel so much better!
But if i use 1440p, then i have to turn aa and ap off..
But once the crossfire driver comes, then i may be able to turn aa back to 4x on 1440p.
Project guys it's a pain.. but maybe it's the game and amd drivers who knows.
 
up2nogooduk said:
I have had it since Wednesday!
Up untill now, i like it. i have to play 1080p maxed out with freesync in BF4, and that's so smooth it feel so much better!
But if i use 1440p, then i have to turn aa and ap off..
But once the crossfire driver comes, then i may be able to turn aa back to 4x on 1440p.
Project guys it's a pain.. but maybe it's the game and amd drivers who knows.
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Why you do not use Crossfire when you play BF4?
 
Panos said:
Why you do not use Crossfire when you play BF4?
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I just did another fresh install on the 15.5 drivers..
So i tried crossfire in bf4 with 120hz maxed out, and for some reason it felt a lot smoother, with less tearing, as the tearing seems to be near the tops of the screen.

Runs nice, even tho i do see bit of tearing..
Any reason why 120hz would feel smoother then 144hz in crossfire.. fps maybe?
 
OCUS said:
I truly like my Benq XL2730z. I play a lot of COD AW and it is awesome! I can't complain about this monitor, even though I have the 295x2 and can't play with Freesync enabled, it still looks great and exceeds all my expectations.
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Sorry maybe i should have quoted this, OCUS (who you agreed with) said he CAN'T play with freesync enabled. "CAN'T" would imply you cannot run the game at all, like it won't launch and won't function at all. How ever if OCUS had said ""Even though i have a 295x2 and running games with freesync enabled is not IDEAL" that would make more sense.

I guess what my question is, how do I know when i should or should not disable freesync, or when i should disable crossfire?

The reason I'm asking is, i have free sync enabled and i've never gone and disabled it regardless of what game i play. If it isn't compatible with crossfire does it automatically disable for games that use crossfire? Or is crossfire being disabled automatically because i have free sync enabled? I just can't seem to notice a difference.
 
Currently you can have Freesync or Crossfire in a game, until AMD puts new drivers out resolving the issue.

By default you activate the Freesync.

If the game you play supports crossfire and you have it configured as such, Freesync will be off. If it doesn't support crossfire, Freesync will be active.

Only the 295X2 requires to create custom profiles, to turn off crossfire on games that do not support it, so you can have the Freesync working.

As I said above, I mainly play MMOs, and all but one of them supports crossfire (TW Arena). The rest do not support CF, some they even crash if I do not turn off CF with custom profile (World of Tanks & World of Warships)

While other going to have some weird effects (Armored Warfare) if left on, there is a category which theoretically supports CF, but is better to play with Freesync on, since the engine is either bad (Elder Scrolls Online) or there is a hard cap on FPS (XCom), or pointless (Civilization, Beyond Earth)
 
Well crossfire is enabled on crossfire. A few issues though with GPU clocks going all crazy with it on. Image is very blurry too, I assume that means I need the firmware update.
 
Panos said:
Currently you can have Freesync or Crossfire in a game, until AMD puts new drivers out resolving the issue.

By default you activate the Freesync.

If the game you play supports crossfire and you have it configured as such, Freesync will be off. If it doesn't support crossfire, Freesync will be active.

Only the 295X2 requires to create custom profiles, to turn off crossfire on games that do not support it, so you can have the Freesync working.

As I said above, I mainly play MMOs, and all but one of them supports crossfire (TW Arena). The rest do not support CF, some they even crash if I do not turn off CF with custom profile (World of Tanks & World of Warships)

While other going to have some weird effects (Armored Warfare) if left on, there is a category which theoretically supports CF, but is better to play with Freesync on, since the engine is either bad (Elder Scrolls Online) or there is a hard cap on FPS (XCom), or pointless (Civilization, Beyond Earth)
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Where does one make these custom profiles? Apparently I'm an idiot, i have no idea what I'm doing.
 
Open CCC -> Gaming -> 3D Application Setting.

Press ADD, select the game executable and turn off Crossfire. (last selection).

You will find the steam games inside the steamapps folder.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Even without the firmware it is an absolutely brilliant monitor.
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Definitely, having had to go back to my old 22" has made me even more appreciative of just how good this screen is. Can't wait to see it with Freesync + AMA after firmware update.

Regarding the RMA, mine was picked up Thurs by DPD. I got an email same morning, giving one hour slot, and that's when the driver arrived, with a pre-printed despatch label.
Repairtech said in their initial contact that it would take 7-10 working days.
 
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